I suck at showdowns
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I find they are hit or miss with me as well. I tend to put my best contact guy in the lead off and then I go for power, power, and more power. I think one key is, depending on how you like to play, choose perks that compliment that style. I go for “Hero Time” and the one that gives exit velocity increase with two strikes. Every time I play. The one that gives a power boost while ahead in the count is another one I choose often.
Regardless of your style of play, everyone agrees the MAIN key is patience! I never swing at the first pitch unless it is a literal meatball down the middle If in doubt, take a strike or two. Let those perks activate.
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@dbrooks1869_XBL said in I suck at showdowns:
Between the being able to count on a ground ball to an infielder as soon as there's a runner on 1st to players with common fielding playing like platinum glove winners
Amen to this. Playing the first inning program on 2020. This is basically supposed to be the "everyone can beat this one" program. Instead its been anything but easy.
First challenge was get 1 run and two hits before making 3 outs. First batter gets a solid single to right. Next batter perfect/perfect single to center, putting speedy runner on second with no outs and a good batter at the plate.
I get another perfect/perfect single to center that's going to score the winning run in just three batters. NOPE. I hit one of those sinking liners that nearly hits the pitcher in the face, and the center fielder activates super dive, flies 10 feet forward to catch the ball just before it hits the ground. Triple play, challenge failed.
I can't bring myself to even try again. If this is the very first challenge and they have to rip you off that bad why spend 500 stubs?
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I don't mean to be totally cliché, but you and everyone else needs more patience at the plate. If you let some of those borderline pitches go early in the count you will definitely see more pitches in the zone.
You don't have to do showdowns but I really encourage people to do them just to practice patience.
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@tybud_PSN said in I suck at showdowns:
I don't mean to be totally cliché, but you and everyone else needs more patience at the plate. If you let some of those borderline pitches go early in the count you will definitely see more pitches in the zone.
You don't have to do showdowns but I really encourage people to do them just to practice patience.
Yeah, practice patience while waiting for that 4 seamer to stop and take a leak on the way to the plate. The response time of the swing always seems to end in weak contact. You just have to keep doing it until it lets you win I think.
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Exit velocity boosts in this mode do not work half the time imo. Atleast half the time. I can have 3 active significant velocity boosts and get nothing but weak contact most of time. It's like this mode flips the switch whenever it wants to
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@tybud_PSN said in I suck at showdowns:
I don't mean to be totally cliché, but you and everyone else needs more patience at the plate. If you let some of those borderline pitches go early in the count you will definitely see more pitches in the zone.
You don't have to do showdowns but I really encourage people to do them just to practice patience.
Nah this is 1000% my problem in all honesty. And even as someone who played baseball from 4 years old through high school, I was and knew to be patient at the plate. But I just can’t get it when playing the game
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I will. Showdowns using timing hitting
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@HustlinOwl_MLBTS said in I suck at showdowns:
This you???
https://new.reddit.com/r/MLBTheShow/comments/13sb8i0/comment/jls3haj/OP seems a little less aggravated than this guy. This guy is probably in the ER because he broke both his hands smashing walls. OP sounds like he just needs a beer or a hug.
Best advice I ever received for Showdowns (I am terrible and totally guilty of not being patient) but have been more successful this year.
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Practice on HoF for like 15 mins before you play Showdown and focus on just waiting for your pitch in a certain location.
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Hero Time perks do stack. I’m sure someone will jump on me and say they don’t. But everywhere I read says they do. Streamers say they do, they show on the screen as all being active and I remember in a previous stream, SDS saying they stack. It sure seems to work for me but if you don’t like that approach, use all exit velo perks.
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Don’t try it all at once unless you’re rolling. If you barely get through a level. Move on to something else and come back once you’re hitting the ball better. But if you’re seeing the ball well, keep it going.
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Speed!!!! Lots of good reasons but mostly to avoid double plays.
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Take pitches. Unless they are right in the spot you like it or it’s 2 strikes, take the pitch. Wearing down the pitcher is a huge benefit.
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Lastly, if you don’t like them, don’t do them. I think the WBC program is the only one you can’t finish if you haven’t already without showdown since the event is long gone. For TA it’s just a way to get through faster. Personally I never understand people wanting to get through TA so fast. To me, it’s easily the best program and meant to last a while. I’d never touch a Showdown for one of the TAs, I’d rather play actual games that give me PXP and build my stats.
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Didn't read a single post here, just throwing my two cents in.... I hate showdowns also and agree with everything everyone said about not liking them.
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Showdowns are by far the worst game mode. It plays dramatically different from every other mode with diamond level fielding and double plays maxed out. The fact they cost 500 stubs to enter and every boss is pass or fail the entire thing is laughable. If showdowns just played like the other game modes, were free entry, and allowed you to pick up wherever you failed they might be tolerable. Otherwise they are simply rigged bs and a waste of time and stubs. I know some people think they are easy but to the vast majority of the player base they are garbage that either needs to be eliminated from the game or modified significantly. Ultimately I just wish the game modes had more consistency and didn’t play so night and day. That’s how the game keeps people coming back though as mastery is impossible when the target is constantly moving.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN said in I suck at showdowns:
If showdowns just played like the other game modes, were free entry, and allowed you to pick up wherever you failed they might be tolerable.
I would even be ok if they made me start from square one again, but making me pay stubs for a mode (playing 2020) where I need them to unlock stuff and making the fielding beyond unreasonably overpowered has me debating how bad I want those cards.
For now I am doing what I can without them.
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@david_duby_PSN said in I suck at showdowns:
I’m almost willing to pay somebody to beat the showdowns *sighs
How much we talking here?
PS disable that accursed pci
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@david_duby_PSN said in I suck at showdowns:
I’m a casual player and I’m over here struggling with the TA showdowns. I prolly just suck at using PCI. I’m almost willing to pay somebody to beat the showdowns *sighs
I don’t mind sucking at them until I suck at them to some minor league pitcher who never threw an inning above AA but he’s got some jacked up card that I can’t hit with 9 Babe Ruth’s.
